I don't think you are being fair. It's pretty clear that he means secondary, not primary, research, i.e reading papers and talking to experts. And, it's quite c

I don't think you are being fair. It's pretty clear that he means secondary, not primary, research, i.e reading papers and talking to experts. And, it's quite common in medicine that there is very little communication or consensus on the diagnosis and treatment of conditions like this, where five different specialists could give you five different answers. Just look at how long it took him to find someone to do the ablation treatment that gave him some improvement.